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Sewell Wallis are currently working with a regional business operating within the construction sector who are recruiting an Accounts Assistant. This role provides an opportunity for someone to take ownership of the day to day finances of a successful and expanding business.
This would be a great opportunity for someone with experience within transactional finance, who is looking to broaden and develop their skills as they take the next step in their career.
What will you be doing?
- Processing and coding purchase invoices
- Preparing BACS payment runs for authorisation
- Processing employee expenses
- Supplier statement reconciliations
- Issuing sales invoices and credit notes as required
- Reviewing aged debtors monthly and contacting customers with overdue balances
- Completing monthly bank reconciliations
- Preparing monthly VAT returns
- Using spreadsheets to collate data
- Additional ad hoc duties at management discretion to support the wider finance team
What skills are we looking for?
- Experience within a similar role, including maintaining Accounts Payable and Receivable ledgers
- Experience using accounting software and Excel
- Ability to balance a varied workload with a high level of accuracy
- Excellent organisation skills, with the confidence to self-manage your own workload
- Good all-round communication skills
What's on offer?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Free on-site parking
Please apply below or if you would like more information contact Eleanor Kirk.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
